Dreams of Flight : The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West /

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In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Martin, Fran (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Chinese students > Education (Higher) > Australia.
Students, Foreign > Education (Higher) > Australia.
Women college students > Australia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: After Mobility?
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Worlds in Motion
  • 1. Before Study: Dreams of Flight
  • 2. Place: Welcome to Melvillage
  • 3. Media: Connection and Encapsulation
  • 4. Work: Emplacement, Mobility, and Value
  • 5. Sexuality: Liminal Times
  • 6. Faith: Spirits of Movement
  • 7. Patriotism: Feeling Global Chineseness
  • 8. After Study: Moving On, Moving Up, Moving Out
  • Conclusion: Unsettled Dreams
  • Notes
  • Index

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